Friday night at Metropolitan Wargamers in Park Slope, Brooklyn had a decent crowd of six of us collected in the back with a few other people up front continuing play of a multi-week and fairly dense American Civil […]

Today, I have a few photos of my newly painted 10mm Thompson House from Buildings in Turmoil. During the Battle of Gettysburg General Robert E. Lee used the Thompson House as his […]

I got the Flames of War Open Fire! set this past Christmas and I’m finally getting around to painting-up all the stuff that comes packed in the box. At under $70 online, this big package is a real deal for new […]

       
This week there was news the Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) book series is to be developed into a film series by 20th Century Fox. Launched in 1979, the series was enormously popular throughout the 80s […]

    
I was already a fairly experienced D&D gamer by the time I encountered the Heritage Dungeon Dwellers series of miniatures and game sets in the early 1980s. Aside from playing creative games and campaigns […]

Flagstone Base Step 1

Start with a thin card template of the base.  Walker’s Shortbread packaging in this case.

Flagstone Base Step 2

Add a thin layer (2-3 mm) of your favorite sculpting […]

Heading into a weekend visit to Metropolitan Wargamers, I often don’t know what kind of game I’m going to be jumping into. It could be a re-fighting of a World War II D-Day scenario with hundreds of finely-painted […]

Last night we had another rollicking adventure with the Movie Cowboy Game. The scenario revolved around delivering justice to the Notorious Belle Starr. The story thus far…..

Belle Star is having a bad day […]

Well, it’s been a long, long time since I’ve added anything here. I got busy with other things and kind of lost track of this blog.

One thing I was doing was finishing my card stock 1930′s Chicago Noir set. […]

I have begun work on my Gettysburg games. The first two scenarios will cover the morning and afternoon fight for McPherson Ridge, Seminary Ridge and Oak Ridge. In preparation for these games, my first priority […]

Post-apocalyptic and dystopian futures in pop culture were big fascinations of mine as a kid. Planet of the Apes premiered the year I was born, and the movie sequels, live-action TV show, Saturday morning […]

Bruegelburg soll weiter ein Schmelztiegel der Fantasykulturen auf meinem Spieltisch sein. Weil ich mir vor inzwischen einiger Zeit dieses Ziel gegeben habe, möchte ich hier Bilder von meinen Lead […]

Today I have completed the move of my blog to a full wordpress hosting. The main reasons for thie relate to my lack of a full computer. I have only a tablet to my name so to have the best possible chance of […]

    
As a kid in the 1970s, I had heaps of activity books of all sorts — brain teasers, mazes, puzzles, coloring, paper doll and cut-out model books. As a new Dungeons & Dragons gamer, I loved 1979′s “The […]

Last Friday we played a fight around some ruined temple, archaeologists versus askaris.

My friend Ed is looking to sell this terrain, piece, by the way.  It is a multi-level piece, with caverns under the ruins! […]

Alternatively known as “microgames,” “pocket games” or “minigames,” a number of companies created a fad in games in small packages in the late 1970s through early 1980s. These compact games came […]

About a year ago I got back into gaming the American Civil War.

My first miniatures wargaming experience back in the 1980s was with 15mm ACW played with the Fire & Fury rules. I wound up stepping away from […]

Carthaginian and Roman command stands:

Elephants!

Velites

Spanish skirmishers